Oct-10 Liturgical Study Twenty-eighth Sunday
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary time Wisdom 7:7-11 Wisdom is the breath of God, the Holy Spirit. Pray for wisdom from God, gift of the Holy Spirit, which lasts longer than any worldly treasures. Psalm 90 Psalm 90 is the only psalm in the psalter recited as a prayer by Moses, the Hebrew in the superscription literally reads “a prayer to Moses, man of God,” on behalf of the people in response to the crisis of exile. It is striking that the pleas to God have an urgency time wise because Moses himself ran out of time, he died before entering the promised land. Reminding us that our human lives are all too fragile and short. For the psalmist, the recognition of human finitude and fallibility is not finally cause for despair, but rather an occasion for prayer. Hebrew 4:12-13 This reading exhorts those who have received God’s promises in Christ, to persevere in faithful obedience and not make the same mistake that the Exodus generation did. Those who do not continue to live respo...